In the development of modern chess, the national individual championship is the highest honor for chess players, and it is also the lifelong dream of countless chess players. The story I want to tell today is the dream path of Yan Wenqing, a famous general in Hebei.
Master Yan Wenqing
8 years ago, by chance, I opened the Yinchuan Chess Road book, the first game of the book is about the last game of Xu Yinchuan in the 1993 National Chess Individual Championship, Xu Yinchuan won the 1993 national championship with this game, and was crowned the chess king at the age of 18, which can be described as unlimited scenery. When he was young, he liked heroes, and after watching this game, he was admired by Xu Xian's chess skills.
Yinchuan Chess Road
As I grew older, I became more pragmatic and began to pay attention to Yan Wenqing, the loser of the authority competition. Yan Wenqing, born in 1967 in Tangshan City, Hebei Province, under the influence of his family, Yan Wenqing has loved chess since he was a child, coupled with talent and intelligence, chess level stands out from the crowd. In 1982, at the age of 15, Yan Wenqing won the second place in the junior group for the first time in the provincial competition. In 1983, he was selected by the Provincial Chess Academy and entered the provincial team training, and Yan Wenqing made great progress in chess under the guidance of Liu Dianzhong and Li Laiqun, two famous chess masters in China.
Grandmaster Liu Dianzhong
National champion Li Laiqun
During his life in the provincial team, Yan Wenqing met his future wife, Hu Ming, who was born in 1971 and was four years younger than Yan. She entered the provincial team in 1982, a year before Yan Wenqing. During the provincial team training, the two fell in love. According to Hu Ming's later recollection, in terms of chess level, Yan Wenqing was much higher than her, often guiding her, and the improvement of her chess level and the formation of her style had a lot to do with Yan.
Six-time champion Hu Ming
In 1986, 15-year-old Hu Ming took the lead in winning the women's national championship, and the age record of winning the national championship has not been broken so far. She then won the women's individual championship for five consecutive years from 1990 to 1994, setting another record.
Looking at Yan Wenqing, he won the fourth place in the national individual competition in 1990, the fifth place in the national individual competition in 1991, and lost to Xu Yinchuan in 1993, which is the game of chess mentioned in the opening chapter. He is still one step away from the national championship. At that time, Yan firmly believed that his level had reached the top of the country, and it was only a matter of time before he won the championship.
Yan Wenqing Hu Ming
In 1998, Yan was 31 years old, Hu was 27 years old, both of them were old, to the point of talking about marriage, hu Ming, who had already won six crowns at that time, made a request: If you win the national championship, I will marry you. At that time, Yan Wenqing's chess skills had been cultivated to perfection, and the previous individual competitions had achieved good results, and Yan Wenqing agreed to Hu Ming's request. He hopes to win the national championship and be crowned a chess grandmaster immediately, and he will return to the beautiful and kill three birds with one stone.
In the first ten rounds of the 1998 individual competition, Yan Wenqing won four wins and six and went unbeaten in one set, one big point ahead of Xu Yinchuan, who ranked second, and only needed to be drawn down in the last round to win the championship and realize his life ideals.
National champion Xu Yinchuan
In the last round, Xu Yinchuan took the lead in the red, walked out of the immortals to guide the way, and tested the layout expert Yan Wenqing's hand, Yan Wenqing also stood up for seven pawns, testing each other. Next, Xu Xian started the left horse, yan Wenqing also played the left horse, and the situation formed symmetry. After taking a few steps to play chess, Xu Yinchuan put on the middle cannon, at this time Yan Wenqing found that he was deceived, his formation was not coordinated, and the two cars were slow to move. Entering the central bureau, Xu Yinchuan gathered heavy troops to break through to the middle road, and Yan Wenqing, who had originally gained the advantage of two troops, returned all his troops, and the eldest sons could not echo each other, and the situation fell into the inferior position. In Xu Yinchuan's fierce and rainy attack, he lost a cannon and lost the chess game.
Losing chess situation
Some people recalled that after losing the game, Yan Wenqing sat paralyzed on a stool and did not get up for half a day, and everyone present was moved.
Simulate emoticons
Yan Wenqing has since been devastated and has never reached the top six of the individual competition. Although he did not win the national championship, Hu Ming eventually married Yan Wenqing, which is a compensation given to Yan by heaven.
Today, Master Yan Wenqing is the head coach of the Hebei Chess Team and is carefully cultivating the next generation, while Hu Ming is the vice president of the Hebei Provincial Chess Academy. The two lived happily ever after.
Yan Wenqing and Hu Ming and his wife
In the pursuit of dreams, some people succeed and some people must fail, and chess shows its charm as a sport in the success and failure.
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